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Safeguarding: Racial Equity and the Power of Data When it comes to safeguarding, data is essential to building and delivering your school's racial equity strategy as part of your wider DEI approach. In order to trust but verify, what data do we need to measure school culture? You'll learn: • How school culture and data intersect • How to harness data to safeguard students and staff • What you need to measure, and how, to get quantifiable results • How to turn data into a practical roadmap & track progress over time

Richard Harman, Chief Executive and Cheryl Connelly, Director of Training, AGBIS will provide members with the latest updates from the sector.

This session will enable participants to gain a clear understanding of: the importance of contracting – on paper and in other ways – at the beginning of the relationship between the new Head and Chair, setting up structures to support the Head, for example coaching, appraisal, and professional development, the role of the Head, and (for heads) the role of governors in providing support and challenge, and what might go wrong and why, and what to do if things are going wrong.

For those staying current with the boarding sector, it will be clear that interest in growth and development, likely involves developing the offering your school can make to international families interested in a British education for their child. With this in mind, this webinar will provide an update on the international market for recruitment and marketing, and also provide best practice suggestions for working with Agents, and Guardians.

This will be an informal online session held via zoom, giving clerks the opportunity to stay connected. You will be invited to put forward any questions or topics that you would like to discuss or find out more about. We will aim to address as many of these as we can through the meeting and help you build and strengthen your networks to make sure you have the support you need. This session will be held via zoom and will not be recorded.

This engaging and topical webinar will consider the potential threats on the horizon for all independent schools, and then guide Governors through a toolbox of marketing tactics to ensure that their schools are doing all they can to weather the current and future political and financial storms. The webinar will consider the threats that lay ahead for independent schools and a futureproof marketing toolbox, including tactics and marketing activities to get ahead of the storm.

In association with HMC, this webinar will look at the mechanics of what makes a Finance & General Purposes Committee deliver outcomes, helping governors and heads strive for excellence and best practice in oversight and governance of non-educational issues in their schools.

Embrace cloud-based technologies, such as Microsoft 365, and Google G-Suite, to not only support educational attainment and collaboration, but also drive significant efficiencies and reduction in the total cost of your IT infrastructure and support.

This webinar joint AGBIS/BSA webinar will give Governors an overview regarding their safeguarding responsibilities and will focus on recent updates relevant to the sector. There will also be a focus on ensuring appropriate responses to the safeguarding situation post-COVID.

This informal online session will give chairs and vice chairs the opportunity to stay connected. You will be invited to put forward any questions or topics that you would like to discuss or find out more about. We will aim to address as many of these as we can through the meeting and help you build and strengthen your networks to make sure you have the support you need. This session will be held via zoom and will not be recorded.